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How to set Gmail as your default email in Opera

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Tuesday June 15, 2010

Opera is a wonderful Web browser. It's fast, it's lean, and it has a world of cool features. In addition, it just keeps getting better and better. If you use Gmail for your email needs, however, you may think that you can't use it as the default for Opera. Sure you can and here's how!

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- Click Start, Programs, then Accessories, then click on Windows Explorer.

- In Windows Explorer click on Drive C. Then click on Program Files.

- Now find the Opera folder, click on it, and find the defaults folder and click on that.

- Look for the file webmailproviders.ini, which despite the file extension is a basic text file.

- If you double-click on it the file will open in your default text editor.

- With the file open, copy the four (4) lines below, that are between two lines, and paste them at the bottom of the file:

------------------------------
[Gmail]
ID=8
URL=https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=%s
ICON=http://mail.google.com/mail/images/favicon.ico
------------------------------

- Copy and paste ONLY the four lines of text between the dotted lines.

Save the file and close it.

- Now open Opera. If Opera was already open close it and open it again.

- Click on the menu button, select Settings and then Preferences.

- Click on the Advanced tab.

- Now click on the Programs section and highlight "mailto" in the protocol listing.

- Now click Edit and select the Use A Web Mail Service button.

- Click on the drop-down list and pick Gmail.

- Click OK twice and restart Opera.

- Gmail is now your default email in Opera.

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